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Cake day: March 10th, 2026

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  • Also good to note: RiscV is not open hardware, it is an open architecture.

    The CPU’s/MCUs made with RiscV are still 99% proprietary and they can put just aa many backdoors into the devices as they want with little no no oversight, arguably less because you have orders of magnitude less external bug and penatration testers.

    Definitely in support of RISC-V because like AV1, open standards are the first big step, but it is good to note that “security” may or may not be better as well as the company behind it.


  • I completely overlooked the android app in the readme, thanks! I have a server set up so can I start local to try it out and migrate to a server later?

    Also is there support for mealie through an authentication platform like authelia?

    Any plans for releasing on F-droid?

    Edit: Oof, you can’t search for foods when making a recipe or meal, hopefully that comes because otherwise it is a huge process to make any custom meal or recipe…



  • Every discussion I have seen on the subject says that docker ipv6 is pretty busted from a security perspective and you have to implement a bunch of workarounds.

    I don’t have to time both to migrate to podman (and maybe have to run dual stacks for what isn’t available) AND migrate to ipv6. But apparently the way podman does it is also kind of a hacky way (I am far from a networking expert) so I will sit with my pretty decent, secure, and working ipv4 lol


  • One thing that people often forget is TVs / stream boxes and Alexa/google assistants.

    Smart TVs all have microphones that are recording (for “voice commands”) and the same with the remotes for stream devices (though probably not unless asked because of battery life), also google and Alexa’s are constantly always listening. They are simply spyware devices that parse everything you say and hand it to advertisers, insurance, governments, etc…

    Phones also suffer from the battery life problem, so jury is still out on whether they listen to you because constantly recording audio would degrade battery life quite a bit (though maybe it is factored in). Phones absolutely do share location data and any phones discovered on the same WiFi network or in the same location if that data was available and from there will share entire search history of devices on the same network (well, that is on the data center end, phones likely just send what devices and for how long they were together). From there it is quite easy to advertised based on search history, unencrypted text data, etc…

    For example in OP, OP had likely searched around about cars and checked out manufacturers websites and such before meeting with the parents (unless they were going in completely blind to dealerships), so it would have shared exactly the cars that they were looking at and linked it to the parents for advertising.

    Still fucked, ethically wrong and legally grey, but “listening” is a bit of an inefficient way to do it, generally.


  • Can you provide one or elaborate on it?

    Embedded developers have tried all manner or wizardry to simply track speed, not even position based just on an accelerometer/gyro, but the sample rate error drift is so large that putting a GPS module in there is 100x more accurate for deriving speed.

    I would be interested to see how a browser, which almost certainly doesn’t get the full serialized data, is able to track just based on that which the wearables industry have been trying for decades with bad results.



  • Yes, but also on the hardware level.

    I don’t know enough about OS programming to know if it is the architecture or the (closed source, as mentioned) CPU design itself that is more difficult to implement.

    Looking at the MCU space, even with a known architecture (like ARM), each processor has to be individually implemented in software and firmware which is a ton of work, and the only people who necessarily know how are the processor designers unless it is open source. But take that with a big block of salt, because I have never done it, just looking at industry practices.





  • Not according to the documentation.

    Qobuz connect is something else that only got released 1 year ago. Spotify Connect even is only still in alpha on Music Assistant and that has been around for many years.

    You can already for years simply find library items from qobuz in the music assistant UI, but playing music to an external Music Assistant provider directly from the Qobuz app on a different device has yet to be implemented.

    Unless the documentation and github issues are all wrong. If you are able to just do that by default, you probably want to give some information as to how on the github feature request.


  • Oh for sure! I am just meaning specifically the Spotify Connect casting in general.

    Then you don’t have to use Music Assistant’s really clunky and weird interface and anyone that comes to your house can just put on music from their own account and own app direct through WiFi without worrying about Bluetooth connection and signal.

    I just looked and apparently Qobuz has a Connect feature that launched last year!

    I hope Music Assistant integrates that! Apparently digital hi-fi systems are also still busy integrating the functionality, including Sonos/IKEA. It would help a ton of people switch to quobuz


  • It is a handy tool.

    The coolest feature is the Spotify Connect which turns your MA speaker into a Spotify Connect satellite to play to directly from the app. (I know, Spotify is terrible, but it is an admittedly Connect is a very very good feature in both Spotify and MA). Sadly, it is very buggy when testing. For me it worked well for a while, but now it bungles Spotify encoding and plays very very slow and distorted

    It plays my home library very well through my ESP32S3 DAC to my old 90s Yamaha AV receiver and amp. (Side effect of also being able to control the sound system via HomeAssistant and IR and use voice assistant on a MEMS mic.

    Like others have said, the interface is very clunky and bad for browsing your library of local music, but oh well. I also wish it had a radio function for your local music.


  • No, I think governments have a responsibility to protect their citizens against massive corporations using any and all psychological weapons they have at their disposal to harm people.

    Again, this proposal is not criminalizing possession or consumption, it is limiting selling. I am all for decriminalizing drugs, but that does not mean that mega corporations that sink literal hundreds of billions into manipulating people and exploiting them should have free reign.

    And tobacco affects the most people in the world besides alcohol lol. I know multiple people that have died directly from cigarettes and my mother in law will also likely die directly due to it. That is pretty much the most unlikely assumption to make.

    That also isn’t even getting into the damage to my own lungs caused by second hand smoke from people around me smoking and infecting an area without my consent. If someone goes around with a knife and starts cutting people up non-lethally, it doesn’t make it OK because they are also cutting themselves.


  • You aren’t legally allowed to sell rat poison to specifically have people put inside their own body. Cigarettes are specifically sold for you to put into your own body.

    Just say that you like cigarettes (or work for a tabacco company) and don’t want them taken away. Which this type of legislation also wouldn’t do. Otherwise, by your logic, let’s make every substance in earth legal to package for human consumption by itself. I’m sure when they advertise meth and cyanide cigarettes to kids like they did tobacco for many years, nothing bad will happen.



  • There already is a lot of illegal food.

    Illegal for food manufacturers inject your food with rat poison, illegal for them to pump your meat full of chlorine, illegal for them to sprinkle powdered arsenic all over your snacks for flavor, illegal to put snake venom in your food, illegal for them to put heroin in your food, they can’t put just a bit of ketamine on you lunch, they can’t put coke or meth in your soda.

    How is this different?